James Bathgate REID (1911)

Friends’ Ambulance Unit
Born 24 June 1888 in Bromley
Died 6 July 1916, aged 28
Commemorated on the war memorial at Caterham School.

James Reid was the son of Stuart J Reid of East Grinstead, Surrey.

He was educated at the Congregational School, Caterham, Surrey, taught at Ashburton, Devon, then graduated from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, before coming up to Merton in 1911. After Oxford he worked as an English master at Halifax Grammar School, Yorkshire.

He joined the Friends’ Ambulance Unit in July 1915, and worked at a hospital in York before being sent to France.

He died of ‘consumption’ (tuberculosis) at East Grinstead, on 6 July 1916.